After living my whole life here at the Jersey Shore, I’ve become gunshy when it comes to embracing the weekend summer traffic, ok, the Bennys. I’ve always avoided that term because I realize these Bennys, while responsible for traffic, litter, spikes in violent crimes and a strain on shore communities also provide a seasonal financial boost for towns all along the Jersey Shore, including Jackson, as home to Six Flags Great Adventure.
GoKidsNJ – For over 5 years, GoKidsNJ has been New Jersey’s premier source of family news, events and information. Each week, we gather health studies from around the internet and consolidate them into one easy to find location. Here are this week’s family health studies provided by www.gokidsnj.com
Early on as the parent of girl who was very interested in sports, I realized there were mild differences in people’s opinions on girls sports vs. boys sports. In general, boy sports were always given more social importance, baseball, football and hockey while the traditional girl sports were back seat novelties to the general community, softball, gymnastics, cheer. Even when you look at youth and scholastic soccer, the boys teams are given prominence, usually.
Many times over the past few months I’ve debated on whether to continue on with this blog since it really does not fit into my overall picture of what I do, but in the past few weeks, I realized that if it can be something good and I treat it like a local extension of GoKidsNJ, but with a more regional and detailed focus, it might be fun and work out in the end.
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Rootstock Rocks Jackson
Holbrook senior league all stars win district and sectional titles
Jackson Little League All-Stars advance in District 18 Tournament
Jackson Township emergency services demonstrate the dangers of drinking on Prom Night